Clay Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clay Fire Grows Hard Persistence
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“...failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements... Any one of… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. — Laozi Copy Share Image
But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Clay can be shaped and reshaped, over and over, but if it gets too dry, if it sets…then there’s only so much you can… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents. — Rig Veda Copy Share Image
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium. — David Goffin Copy Share Image
Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
